In early 2018, as South Africa's Western Cape region was in the midst of a yearslong drought that brought its reservoirs to ...

SCIENTISTS have said that human-induced climate change increased the severity of the 2021-2022 drought in the Horn of Africa.

The United Nations World Food Programme, which relies on the U.S. for nearly half its budget, is closing its Southern Africa ...

Algeria is planning to import one million sheep ahead of Eid al-Adha to curb rising prices and shortages amid drought and ...

Drought, conflict, and high food prices might push another one million Somalians into crisis levels of food insecurity in the ...

Today, Africa Daily’s Mpho Lakaje focuses on Zimbabwe, one of several southern African countries recently hit by a prolonged drought. Seven million people are now desperate for food assistance.

The United Nations’ World Food Programme is closing its southern African bureau that’s been leading a response to the worst ...

ICPAC data indicate that torrential rains could occur in southern Tanzania and parts of southwestern Uganda in March, leading ...

Kadirire is hoping rains, which started January, continue in March so she can at least harvest some other crops, like ...

Charities said southern Africa faced an unprecedented drought caused by El Niño, the recurring climate event which intensifies either dry or stormy weather ...

UN Food Agency Shuts Southern Africa Bureau During Drought, Citing Low Funding By Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The United Nations World Food Programme, which relies on the U.S. for ...